Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the pressure of an aroused clergy, French churches are being stripped of such junk, and the St.-Sulpice stores are desperately looking for better wares. To help fill the gap, an earnest group of young painters and sculptors was staging a "Salon of Sacred Art" in Paris last week...
...myth is easy enough to debunk. It is based on reasoning of the most specious kind. There is, say the myth makers, an unbridgeable gap between the Democratic and Republican parties. If the Democrats gain control of Congress, therefore, the Administration would have its hands tied during one of the most shaky periods of peace the world has ever seen. But the myth simply is not true. The GOP is relying on the President's Midas touch in the hope that everything he blesses will turn to votes. By tacitly lending his name to every politician who marches under...
...style remained, but there was no sign of the stamina needed for a sprint when the Briton moved out on the track to get racing room. Fifty yards from the tape, he was half a pace back. Twenty-five yards to go, and he was still behind. But the gap was smaller now. By the time they passed the tape, Chris Chataway, the man who always finishes second, was first by a stride. His time: 13:51.6, a new world's record...
When the new program goes into effect next April, a $65 million kitty from customs revenues will be available for subsidies. If the program had been in effect this year, it would have cost the Government about $21 million to bridge the gap between the free market and the guaranteed prices. Agriculture also announced that as soon as the higher subsidies raise wool production to the 300 million-lb. goal, there will be a new target of 360 million...
...known by the dilemmas he keeps, the "G. I." administration tosses a different human quandry at the seniors each week. This lightning survey of the world's problems is designed to "provide a common intellectual experience for all men in their last year of college to bridge the gap between formal classroom instruction and the average adult experience in learning; and to encourage in seniors a sense of public purpose and a heightened public-mindedness...